Excerpting Camille Paglia

Contemporaneity is an even worse plague upon the “best” higher education. The most interesting and daring minds of my generation did not, as a rule, go on to graduate school or succeed in the academic system. Hence our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaverlike tunneling to the top.

-from the introduction to Sex, Art, and American Culture, 1992